April Lindner is a professor at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia's Jesuit university, and the author of three young adult novels: Love, Lucy, a retelling of A Room With a View; Catherine, a contemporary retelling of Wuthering Heights; and Jane, a retelling of Jane Eyre, all published by Poppy/Little, Brown Young Reader. Her digital-only novella, Far From Over, was published by NOVL. She is also a poet, with two collections in print: This Bed Our Bodies Shaped, from Able Muse Press, and Skin, winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press. She writes literary criticism and edits poetry anthologies. The mother of two adult sons, Lindner lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania with her husband, pet chickens, and three rescued pups--Nico, Lily, and Miles. Ryan Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia, in 1982, and raised in nearby Macon. His books include The Stranger World (Measure, 2017)-- winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize -- How to Think Like a Poet (Wiseblood, 2019), and Proteus Bound: Selected Translations 2008-20 (Franciscan UP, 2021) and most recently, In Ghostlight (LSU, 2024). His work appears in periodicals such as Best American Poetry, Birmingham Poetry Review, First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, and Yale Review. He is Editor-in-Chief of Literary Matters (literarymatters.org), and he teaches at The Catholic University of America and in the M.F.A. program at the University of St. Thomas--Houston.
